Captain Capon's Cure—Food, Fitness and the British Army's Physical Development Depots, 1936–1939
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12585537 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Paul Davenport (0000-0002-8874-2353, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 253-273 |
| Data de publicação | 2014-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Contemporary British History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997 |
| Editora | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13619462.2014.930347 |
| OpenAlex | W2111912958 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 22 |
In the late 1930s, the British Army faced a manpower crisis that threatened imperial defence. This predicament was made worse by the rejection on medical grounds of a worryingly high number of potential recruits. To try and reverse this tendency, an experiment in feeding and physical exercise was instigated, supervised by Captain PJL Capon of the Royal Army Medical Corps. This article investigates a largely ignored part of the social history of the British Army. Captain Capon's ‘cure’ is examined in the context of scholarly interest in the body, fitness and health with particular reference to anxieties centred on notions of national degeneration
Capon · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Physical fitness · Physical therapy · Political science · Sociology · Telecommunications · Engineering · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The Image of Man
Slow Motion
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
Training for sport is training for war’
Montgomery, morale, casualty conservation and ‘colossal cracks’
The 1930s Nutrition Controversy
Military Fitness and Civilian Health in Britain during the First World War
The Defence Requirements Sub-Committee, British Strategic Foreign Policy, Neville Chamberlain and the Path to Appeasement
Lies, Damn Lies, and Manchester's Recruiting Statistics
Doctrine and Organization in the British Army, 1919–1932
Building a British Superman
The British General Staff and the Coming of War, 1933-9
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |